Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Forum on Contemporary Europe Stanford University


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Religion and Secularization in Europe, question mark  

Symposium

Date and Time
April 24, 2009
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
No RSVP required


AGENDA

9:30AM Welcome
10:00AM - 12:00PM
 Morning Session
  • “Religious Divisions After the Reformation: A Spur to Secularization?”
  • Benjamin Kaplan (University College London)
    “Judaism in Europe”
    John Efron (UC Berkeley)
2:00PM - 4:00PM
 First Afternoon Session
  • “Secularism and Islam in Europe”
    John Bowen (Washington University, Saint Louis)
  • “The Vatican, the EU, and the Enduring Dream of a ‘Catholic Europe”
    Tim Byrnes (Colgate University)
4:30PM - 6:30PM
 Second Afternoon Session
  • “American and European Exceptionalisms Revisited”
    Jose Casanova (Georgetown University)
  • “Is there really a religious Europe? Some remarks on European diversity”
    Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Universität München)
6:30PM - 7:00PM Concluding Discussion

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Department of Religious Studies, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Department of History, the Stanford Humanities Center,and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

Topics: History | Islam | Europe

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Location
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University


Non-FSI Contact
Tatiana Deogirikar
International Comparative & Area Studies
Events & Communications
tanya@stanford.edu